"I mean nothing not a word on the lil pop up window that shows the progress nothing. the lil window pops up but that is it. not text showing the lights being rendered nothing" What OS & memory? I've had the exact same thing on 98SE/256MB. Ruthlessly eliminating any other non-essential processes running other than the essentials seemed to fix it.

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